Brute Quotes

190 Brute quotes by 153 unique authors

It rasped her, though, to have stirring about in her this brutal monster! to hear twigs cracking and feel hooves planted down in the depths… — Virginia Woolf
...looking angrily at the wombat: and a moment later, 'Come now, Stephen, this is coming it pretty high: your brute is eating my hat.' 'So… — Patrick O'Brian
The phrase "It's absolutely the same with me, I..." seems to be an approving echo, a way of continuing the other's thought, but that is… — Milan Kundera
i understand that the world was nothing: a mechanical chaos of casual, brute enmity on which we stupidly impose our hopes and fears. i understood… — John Gardner
Listening (had there been any one to listen) from the upper rooms of the empty house only gigantic chaos streaked with lightning could have been… — Virginia Woolf
One of our people in the Native community said the difference between white people and Indians is that Indian people know they are oppressed but… — Winona LaDuke
To achieve accurate knowledge of others, if such a thing were possible, we could only ever arrive at it through the slow and unsure recognition… — Marcel Proust
The civil magistrate cannot function without some ethical guidance, without some standard of good and evil. If that standard is not to be the revealed… — Greg L. Bahnsen
In the abstract, it might be tempting to imagine that irreducible complexity simply requires multiple simultaneous mutations - that evolution might be far chancier than… — Michael Behe
I am wary of the whole dreary deadening structured mess that we have built into such a glittering top-heavy structure that there is nothing left… — John D. MacDonald
Snow, get behind me!" Charming shouted as he leaped to his feet. "I'll handle this brute." "Billy", the teacher cried. "This is the twenty-first century,… — Michael Buckley
The first couple of times, he simply stayed - a stranger to kill the aloneness. A few nights after that, he whispered “Shhh, I’m here,… — Markus Zusak
You're thinking that people don't keep up old jealousies for twenty years or so. Perhaps not. Not just primitive, brute jealousy. That means a word… — Dorothy L. Sayers
Astriola. That IS demon pox. You had evidence that demon pox existed and you didnt mention it to me! Et tu, Brute!' He rolled up… — Cassandra Clare
Blue is for cruel bargains; green is for daring what you oughtn’t; violet is for brute force. I will say to you: Coral coaxes; pink… — Catherynne M. Valente
How shall Integrity face Oppression? What shall Honesty do in the face of Deception, Decency in the face of Insult, Self-Defense before Blows? How shall… — W. E. B. Du Bois
I have one thing you don't,' he murmured against her neck, turning his head and nipping her earlobe. 'What?' His tongue teased her ear. 'Brute… — Christine Feehan
But where, says some, is the King of America? I'll tell you. Friend, he reigns above, and doth not make havoc of mankind like the… — Thomas Paine
A war doesn’t merely kill off a few thousand or a few hundred thousand young men. It kills off something in a people that can… — John Edward Williams
To be honest, I thought it was similar to animal husbandry." Sally's tone turned dry. "Sometimes, my lady I'm afraid it isn't that different." Pippa… — Sarah MacLean
If brute force doesn't work, you aren't using enough — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Never whine. Whining lets a brute know that a victim is in the neighborhood. — Maya Angelou
It is evil things that we will be fighting against-brute force, bad faith, injustice, oppression and persecution-and against them I am certain that the right… — Neville Chamberlain
Brute force, no matter how strongly applied, can never subdue the basic human desire for freedom. — Dalai Lama
I know no study which is so unutterably saddening as that of the evolution of humanity, as it is set forth in the annals of… — Thomas Huxley

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